Begging's at epicentre of a Storm of Political Controversy! FOR a council whose entire raison d'etre and long term strategic resp...

EARLIER today in a telephone conversation with a friend he commented that he thought his local MP was ‘a bit of a deadleg’ . Now I’ve not...

Editorial comment:    Below are the contents of a post on the personal Blog of the very notorious Rochdale Councillor Faisal Rana. He i...

Editorial comment: In a tweet on July 22 Rochdale Cllr Rana says: 'Too few BAME councillors leads to bad decisions.' Cllr Fai...

by Brian Bamford Political activist & teacher first elected as a Labour councillor in Rochdale in 1964 WHEN I first met Eileen Kers...

by Les May ONE of the reasons I write for the Northern Voices blog is that it does not have ‘a party line’ .  For people who think th...

  by Brian Bamford & Les May with help from Carl Faulkner Last year Allen Brett Rochdale's council leader said Cllr. Rana h...

by Les May UNLIKE many Labour supporters in Rochdale, I found it difficult to get too excited about whether Richard Farnel l did ...

ON Tuesday the 12th, March, the mother of a lad who was resident at Knowl View School, commented on a post entitled 'Midsummer Murder...

by Les May THE TV land of Midsummer is a fictional place of pretty villages and dark deeds. People who always like to grab the ...

by Brian Bamford ON the 5th, December Carl Faulkner, an independent analyst and investigator concerned about the decline of common dec...

by ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’ A COUPLE of years ago the Rochdale Observer published a report of a march by one of those three i...